Newsletter Purim 2016 Jerusalem Books Ltd Dear Friends,
87018 Har Ha-Osher aka Mount of Beatitudes, the latest by Amir Gutfreund
and published posthumously. Kinneret Zemora - Bitan, 978-965-566-159-0.
(2016). $28.00 Don't miss also recent Aggadat Bruno ve-Adella,
978-965-552-902-9, Kinneret Zemora Bitan $ 29.00 Or Mazal Orev by this
author.
Diwan, ha-Shira ha-Temanit ha-kelalit, New and Old Yemenite Arabic Poems
(in Hebrew /Judeo Arabic) ed. By Mordechay Titzhari. (634 PP. hard) 86723
$ 59.00
87050 Moladeti Erets Canaan, Uzi Ornan in Hebrew and Arabic - on
contemporary heterogeneous Israeli Society. (soft) Reslimg publ. $ 27.00
Controversy has surrounded Gader hai, 978-965-13-2458-1, by Dorit Rabiniyan
and published by Am Oved. The novel involves a romance between Arab and Jew.
Yet the famous work of Israeli Literature, Modern Hebrew Literature taught
for HS Diploma exams, (bagruyot) was Ha-Me'ahev, Lover, by A. B Yehoshua.
In the end the MinisterBennet decided against the committees advice so as to
allow the book as part of curriculum. 83857 $ 29.00
87051 Ha-Zar ha-mekomi , the Local Stranger: embodiments of hybridity within
modern Hebrew literature, by Ayelet Shamir and published by Resling. $
28.00
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Yiddish, Bet Leyvik , 87065 'Baym yam on baym taykh, By the Sea and the
River,' 978-965-7348-36-9, by Wasserman, Luba. $ 17.00
87068 Arba Kanfot, 978-965-7348-33-8, by Welwel (Velvel T'shernin)
Tasharnin, Poetry, $19.00
An older title released many times and made into a play, Far Vous Lekht de
Kala, Why Does the Bride Laugh, by Esther Bar Hayim, and last year's, Oif
Der Alter, Af Der Alter, While Being Old, by Avraham Meyerkevich
(978-965-7348-42-00) $ 24.00
Liberal magazine. New Magazine in Hebrew: new issues 19, 20, on Politics
Culture and Media, interested in a subscription?
In Bible, Jewish Thought & Philosophy and also Rabbinics, Sefer ha-Yovelim,
the Book of Jubilees, introduction, translation and interpretation, by Cana
Werman, published by Yad Yitzhak Ben Zvi, 978-965-217-380-5. Not the book
published by Magnes over half a dozen years ago. Spitzer's must have's.
86311 $66.00
Sifre Kodesh - Rabbinics:
86921 Sefer Dibur u'mahshava sikum u'perush le-Sefer Netsah Yisrael l'
Mahara"l mi-Prag, ed.s Rabbis Shelomo and Aharon (Machon) Toledano.
Commentary on the Classic R' Lowe, 2 vols. $ 68.00
86922 Ha-Mesorti'in ha-kadmonim, ha-mehuyavim le-halakha u'portse gevulot,
by Akiva Sterberg, Important scholarly work reflecting possibly more
liberal, or more radical rabbinic scholars. An interesting topic which is
appearing more frequently in Rabbinics and Jewish Thought examining the
differing, pluralistic approaches and conclusions Jewish scholars have
employed and arrived at. Serving to investigate and document the diversity
within Jewish thinking and understanding of Jewish texts, traditions,
customs and law (halakha). $ 30.00
86776 Sefer Neshamat Shabtai Levi,, it is important classical Jewish
Philosophy circ 16th Century CE, Prague. The book is Kabbalistic and
mystical and rabbinic scholarly. The author was a Physician Dr. Sheftel
Horovitz and influenced Hassidut. Ed. By Erez Hadad publ. Hesder Rishon
LeTzion. $ 27.00
87036 Sefer Bazak Labone, Divre Ze'ev al ha-Torah, R' Binyamin Cohen z"l an
important scholar and figure of 19th Cent CE Bohemia (Moravia). This is
complete now from manuscript although part was published (about/more than)
fifteen years ago. This new edition is with the assistance of Mifal Moreshet
Yahadut Hungaria and published by Machon Yerushalayim.. The books are
significant also for their History of the area north of Prague and the
relations between Jews and the surroundings. The anti-Jewish laws, including
prohibiting all but the firstborn Jews to marry. Yes, the others were not
recognized and seen as aliens. There were head taxes etc. Much of the
relations with other communities and rabbinic figures are discussed and
documented. $58.00
87046 Halamish Le-ma'ayano mayim, the Flint Into a Fountain of Waters,
Studies in Kabbala, Jewish Law, Custom and Philosophy submitted to Prof.
Moshe Hallamish, ed by Elqayam and Haviva Pedaya, published by Carmel,
978-965-540-567-5. The editor is head of Jewish thought at Bar Ilan
University. Haviva Pedaya is a distinguished author and Professor at Ben
Gurion U. Rational vs. Mystical Jewish Philosophy, Scholarly, Must Have,,,
$54.00
87072 Seride teshuvot me-hakhmey ha-imperya ha-Ottomanit : vol 1-2 (Seride
Teshuvot of the Ottoman Sages from the Cairo Geniza in the Elkan Natahan
Adler Collection of the Library of the Jewish Theological Seminary of
America, edited and by Shmuel Glick also with Yaakov Schwartz Avraham
Levin, Ariel Grossman. Formally Bar Ilan University Press and JTS but
practically the Bet Midrash La-Rabanim be-America, 978-965-456-066-5 (vol 1)
978-965-456-067-2 (vol 2). A full color facsimile edition. This book
includes descriptions of fifty fragments from the Ottoman Empire Sages
(16th-19th) found in the Elkan Nathan Adler Genizah collection at the JTS
Library. It covers areas of Bible interpretation, exegesis, Jewish Law as
well as cultural social and legal history and development. (Please note,
this is new and different than the 3 volume work with a similar title but
from fragments and works from the Cambridge Uni. Collection.) two vol.s $
188.00
Thanks very much for your time interest and orders.
Looking forward to seeing you all at the upcoming AJL this Spring
Wishing you a Happy Purim
Sincerely,
Jeff
Jeff Spitzer
Jerusalem Books ltd.
Jeff Spitzer
Jerusalem Books, Ltd.
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